Magento catalog customization: admin area

Project objective

To customize Magento catalog to have additional filters while browsing products

Description

Magento backoffice provides its owner with the broad range of administration tools. They allow getting all the necessary information on how the shop is running and what else should be done to promote it further. But sometimes there are some minor drawbacks in Magento admin that worsen the usability. In those cases the shop should be customized either by its owner or by the professionals.

Seems strange but the default Magento catalog doesn’t provide the possibility to filter the products by the brand (manufacturer) or by category they belong.

It looks something like that:

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Technologies involved

PHP, XML

Solution

The professionals from Oxagile company have created a new design of the catalog page that includes all the filtering options the customer needed. It seems more user friendly now and should be included in the Magento update sometime

Look at the new version just to compare them:

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